Hersh's Gem

I don't have time right now to make extended comments on Seymour Hersh's new article about the United States' decision to site increasingly with Sunni forces in Iraq and the Middle East at large. But most everything Hersh writes is expertly researched and clearly written, so I advise you to read it. Hopefully, I'll write a longer post about it tomorrow.

My first impression, after a superficial reading, was despair/resignation over the degree which the US now has to play balance-of-power sectarian politics in Iraq. Remember when everyone thought that Iraqis would abandon their sectarian differences and unite to form a liberal, democratic government? That was fun.